836 Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.

A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats

Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.